NHL announces its referees for Canucks and Oilers' game seven
On Monday night, the Vancouver Canucks and Edmonton Oilers will both line up for their first Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Playoffs and this morning, the referees for the game were announced.
The teams will see two familiar faces, Chris Rooney and Jean Hebert, named the duo for Game 7. Each referee is slated to make their second appearance in the series.
Chris Rooney worked Game 3 of the series, whereas Jean Hebert was given the rare assignment of working back-to-back games in a series.
The Canucks certainly will not have any complaints about seeing Rooney as part of the game, as throughout this season, including playoffs, the team is an impressive 11-0-1 when Rooney is one of the two refs.
Hebert is from New Brunswick and is a veteran of 14 years that has recently surpassed the 100 playoff game plateau, including reffing two games so far in this Canucks run - one win over Nashville and Saturday's loss to the Oilers.
Rooney, a Boston native, is one of the NHL's longest-serving officials, having skated in over 1,500 NHL games between the playoffs and the regular season.
Devin Berg and Jonny Murray will be working the lines in Game 7.
The game gets underway in Vancouver at 6 PM PST.
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